ARAD. - City in western Romania, capital of the province of the same name in Transylvania. It enters history as early as the 11th century, and at the end of the 12th it is the seat of a Catholic bishopric. In 1705 Isaia Diaconovici established the dissident bishopric there, but in 1713 Bishop Ivanichie Martinovici adhered to Rome, and from 1720, under Bishop Sofronie Ravanovici, conversions made ever greater progress, down to the bishopric of Nistor Ivanovici (1829-30).

At the beginning of the 20th century A. is the cultural and national center of the Transylvanian Romanians; there the Romanian National Council prepared the historic assembly of Alba Julia (Dec. 1, 1918) for the union of Transylvania with the mother country.

The city has churches for the various rites, a dissident bishopric and a Lutheran one, a Latin-Catholic vicariate and a Greek-Catholic archpriesthood, as well as a house of Minorites, seat of the provincial of the Order for Transylvania.

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BIBL.: Somoggi, A. véros leirása, Arad 1912; N. Jorga, Guide historique de la Roumanie, Bucharest 1936, pp. 8-9; Enciclopedia României, II, passim.

Venere Isopescu

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